The current 3D week on Channel 4 – which starts with a 50-year-old film – may herald a new age of 3Dtv
Tonight you'll get to see the Queen as you've never seen her on television before – in 3D. Even for a non-royalist, that sounds quite fabulously futuristic. But the reality is rather different. Instead of ushering in a new (and much-discussed) age of 3Dtv, Channel 4 will actually be drawing on footage that is more than 50 years old.
It was 1953, and the golden era of stereoscopic movies when the young cameramen Bob Angell and Arthur Wooster captured the Queen's coronation in 3D. The first colour 3D feature film had been released a year earlier, and the most fashionable glasses came with red and cyan lenses. For Wooster's 80th birthday this year, his son, David Wooster, the executive producer of the C4 show, rediscovered the old clips.
3D holy grail
The colours have changed for 2009 – C4's glasses,...
Tonight you'll get to see the Queen as you've never seen her on television before – in 3D. Even for a non-royalist, that sounds quite fabulously futuristic. But the reality is rather different. Instead of ushering in a new (and much-discussed) age of 3Dtv, Channel 4 will actually be drawing on footage that is more than 50 years old.
It was 1953, and the golden era of stereoscopic movies when the young cameramen Bob Angell and Arthur Wooster captured the Queen's coronation in 3D. The first colour 3D feature film had been released a year earlier, and the most fashionable glasses came with red and cyan lenses. For Wooster's 80th birthday this year, his son, David Wooster, the executive producer of the C4 show, rediscovered the old clips.
3D holy grail
The colours have changed for 2009 – C4's glasses,...
- 11/16/2009
- by Vicky Frost, Stuart O'Connor
- The Guardian - Film News
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